lounge

[summer cedar]

Conquer a Chinese warehouse and loot them.

Or you could buy Massimo batteries from India. 🙂

[pearl elk]

well definitely going Chinese cuz apparently the Tesla powerwalls dont function without grid baseload

whats the point of a battery backup if it requires the grid ffs lol

[summer cedar]

sounds silly, yeah.

WHY does it require the grid?

[pearl elk]

we have inverters for the solar but we'll need more for the battery since it'll be in a different location

not sure, I think it uses the grid to bleed excess power since its an inverter and battery in one

[hasty cargo]

mobile workstation ftw

though if I lost power, the gpu on oculink loses power so up shit creek anyway

[pearl elk]

its such a big property though, we have out main power down in the old dairy then all the other buildings have their own power running off that so the plan is to have the battery near that mains power then all the solar can feed back into the batteries

bloody 15A and 30A systems too

[summer cedar]

Google says you can disconnect the powerwall from the main grid with the tesla app. Can't you do that?

[pearl elk]

lol how you gonna use the app if the power is out

if I knew when the power was gonna go out I wouldnt need the battery

I think it was GoodWe I was lookin at

[hasty cargo]

for an inverter?

[summer cedar]

How many days are you looking at?

[pearl elk]

those are a stackable system, seemed pretty smart

[summer cedar]

10 days backup?

[pearl elk]

lol I'll be happy if it runs everything overnight

[hasty cargo]

as long as they are putting out clean AC, lot's of chinesium power supplies are putting out choppy AC that will damage ur stuff

sometimes a little honda generator makes more sense

[pearl elk]

well thats the issue with the grid power atm, I do want a generator hooked up to that too. Maybe an electronic starter if it senses no grid power

those single cylinder honda motors are great tbh, we use em for water pumps all over

theres one on the log splitter too, it runs the hydrolics

[hasty cargo]

yeah, reliable, clean AC and don't suffer like batteries do

[summer cedar]

Suddenly, those hamster wheels look more and more lucrative.

Just gotta keep whipping 'dem critters.

[pearl elk]

I could put the goat in a hamster wheel

[summer cedar]

Just make a goat wheel..... of cheese.

[pearl elk]

I could make one of those log wheel things and hook the cows up to it

[hasty cargo]

australia is as flat as a ruler but one can dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6TIWub6KU

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/conan-the-barbarian-push-gif-15110021

just put the cows on this

[pearl elk]

I live in a valley, we have a windmill which pumps up to a small dam

[hasty cargo]

opportunity exists

and also potential unintended flooding

[summer cedar]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/india/we-re-screwed-trump-warns-supreme-court-ruling-on-tariffs-could-trigger-trillion-dollar-refund-crisis/ar-AA1U4wDM - Maybe he should've thought of going through the right process before arbitrarily enforcing his tariffs.

That being said, it could easily go his way. 🤷‍♂️

[hasty cargo]

it's not arbitrary in the case of india tbh

[summer cedar]

Wouldn't matter if the court rules the way he fears. Everything except for the tariffs backed by a Congress bill, which he hasn't implemented yet.

It'll be fun to see the lawsuits from consumers demanding repayments of excess charges.

[pearl elk]

would he even listen to the supreme court is the thing

[summer cedar]

Heh.

[pearl elk]

just fingers in the ears "lalalalala"

[summer cedar]

He may not, but consumers and companies are entitled to sue for their money back.

Fun times.

Of course, like I said, it could all go the other way.

Lord Beer and Lord Bribes might swing it his way.

Or the other two.... meh.

[pearl elk]

I love how he still thinks the US has improved so dramatically all of a sudden

[summer cedar]

He hardly reads.

How would he know what's improved and what hasn't?

Apart from his bank balance.

[bronze axle]

2026 might finally be the year of the Linux desktop.

[white oxide]

the big thing is that as moronic as the military is portrayed most of them WOULD refuse illegal orders... until the absent NCO shows up and tells them it will be fun

[bronze axle]

I am going to seriously investigate switching this year.

[summer cedar]

I hope Linux gets more support, yes.
I also fear once more people start using it, vulnerabilities and hacks will crop up.

[white oxide]

oh def

[bronze axle]

On the flip side, more people using Linux means more issues will be addressed, as well.

[hasty cargo]

lot of movement to linux in the EU too

[white oxide]

also lot more malware and spyware will show up prebuilt

[bronze axle]

Of course, it's not quite the same such things happening on Windows and macOS since there are so many distributions.

[summer cedar]

The dumb part of it is, the tariff refunds will almost exclusively hit Americans. It's not like any country is going to be demanding money back. He's talking about 'repayment'. I doubt he understands it's his own people he's going to be repaying. 😄

[bronze axle]

But the popular ones will be hit hardest.

[summer cedar]

I bet there are lots of commonalities between the distros too.

Hackers will exploit similar holes and poke, poke.

It's just that so few people use said distros and so, no one's really interesting in BOOM-ing them..... yet.

[median wraith]

@bronze axle man I see you bit in the bones since the last time, you have to take care better :p

[pearl elk]

We should start a movement, Unreal Engine Devs For Linux

[summer cedar]

he's improving. He's a big skull now. 😛

[summer cedar]

Heh. Only on the condition that devs who have finished games ALONE can participate. 😄

[pearl elk]

well Im pretty sure we need a working Unreal Engine on Linux first 😹

[bronze axle]

Developing on Linux is a different beast entirely, and I am curious about that. I will be going pretty hard on supporting Steam Deck and Machine with my games this year. Part of that will be investigating support beyond just SteamOS.

[summer cedar]

Which games have you made, PFist?

[hasty cargo]

yes yessssssss, kill direct x

[bronze axle]

It's not so bad being a skeleton.

[summer cedar]

Can I play them?

[pearl elk]

cheaper food

[summer cedar]

technically, just bone dust.

economical.

[pearl elk]

and if something bad does happen you feel it in your bones

[summer cedar]

--- US President Donald Trump has announced a fresh trade move that could affect many countries across the world. He said that any country that does business with Iran will now have to pay a 25% tariff on all trade with the United States. ---

Bro still doesn't get how tariffs work.

It's been a year already.

Get a clue.

I know, I know. Wishful thinking. But still....

[white oxide]

the problem with linux becoming mainstream, is obscurity is the best security in tech

like how the only way to power on my backup desktop is using a specific floppy disk to allow boot

[summer cedar]

Heh. Even if Linux gets MASSIVE popularity, one or two distros will become the standard and all the others will get pushed to the corner.

Capitalism at work.

Then, people will invent Minux, the successor.

[hasty cargo]

the way he see's it tariffs are just profitable sanctions, but if shit gets real, they might apply sanctions

[summer cedar]

Replay cycle all over again. 😄

[pearl elk]

that might not be a bad thing though, it means those few distros at the top will get more development focus

[white oxide]

and more zero day exploits

[summer cedar]

Yep. True. But what you'll get is another MS-style situation.

Or Apple-style, or whatever.

Same thing will happen.

Of course, I am assuming Linux achieves that user base.

[pearl elk]

just dont run a MongoDB on your Linux workstation 😛

[summer cedar]

Who had a MongoDB problem recently?

I think we talked about it here?

[hasty cargo]

nothing is going to be hack proof, but atleast with linux you don't have to "consent" to mandatory spyware

[mild gust]

Ubisoft allegedly

[summer cedar]

Oh yeah!

You mentioned it. I remember now.

Also, morning Lucifer! 👋

[mild gust]

Then it was said they weren't leaked via MongoDB later

[pearl elk]

I dont really play any of those games which require those invasive anti-cheats anyway

[mild gust]

Because originally said it was Mongobleed

But then other hackers said its not possible so

[summer cedar]

Mongobleed just sounds weird. 😄

The word I mean. Moniker, whatever.

[mild gust]

Good

Microsoft is the devil

[summer cedar]

@pearl elk A remnant of DOGE mathematics.

I'd love to see how all this is narrated in history, down the line. 🙂

"Once upon a time, a once-well-regarded nation was turned into a kakistocracy. These are their tales..."
🥁 Play Law and Order music

And somehow, I feel L&O music would fit the entire documentary perfectly. 😄

[summer cedar]

Did you see Capt. Orange worried about the court rulings about tariffs?

[mild gust]

Yup

Might have to pay back trillions or some shit

[summer cedar]

Aye, but he doesn't get TO WHOM.

[bronze axle]

Not true about all the many distros that are used on servers and phones that power the world.

[pearl elk]

he could pay it to me

[bronze axle]

Ubuntu, Rocky, CentOS, etc.

[mild gust]

Hopefully it's his own money

[bronze axle]

RedHat as well.

[mild gust]

Work uses Ubuntu

and illegal windows 95

[bronze axle]

I use Ubuntu in all my web hosting. It's rock solid.

[summer cedar]

That's true. Cpanel is good.

[summer cedar]

Make sure you get your $2000 dividend. 😄

And ask for the tariff repayment ABOVE that.

[bronze axle]

I just shipped a game for a client if you like surreal puzzle games, and I've got my own indie horror game coming out soon.

[mild gust]

Cat attacks his pc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg9uSCVW-kc

[summer cedar]

Title please.

[bronze axle]

My client's game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2056430/What_Has_Come_Before/

Steam

What Has Come Before

What Has Come Before is a perspective-driven puzzle game set in an eerie and stylish black and white Lynchian world. Stuck in limbo with only hearing and vision to guide, players must utilize clever changes in perspective to move forward.

To progress through levels, players must clearly grasp what they're looking at, moving camera or following…

Price

$7.99

I was responsible for game programming, UI, and audio engineering.

This is my horror game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1407750/Midnight_Laundry/

Steam

Midnight Laundry

Midnight Laundry is a short first-person horror game where a long night at the laundromat takes an unexpected turn.Features

• Psychological horror with a retro aesthetic
  • A haunting story about loss, liminal spaces, and the unexplained
    …

Release Date

2026

[pearl elk]

those big companies are struggling so hard to buy RAM

[bronze axle]

The AI/RAM situation is pretty awful.

[summer cedar]

I like how Midnight Laundry is coming along.

[bronze axle]

Glad I built a very powerful PC that will last me a long time.

[bronze axle]

Thank you. I will be sharing more soon. It's close to done so I need to start marketing again.

[mild gust]

ECC memory?

[pearl elk]

the nextgen will be interesting, I wonder if they'll have to backpedal on price points that are too high

[summer cedar]

Interestingly, 77% of server OSes are Linux, since 2019 or so, apparently.

All supercomputers are Linux based. 100%.

[bronze axle]

Yep.

It's extremely reliable.

[mild gust]

Reminds me of that meme

[summer cedar]

Desktops........ fortunately/unfortunately for Linux - 4%.

[bronze axle]

I'm going to have fun tinkering with a few Linux distros this year.

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/fuck-microsoft-fuck-microsoft-john-malkovich-malkovich-gif-24980256

[summer cedar]

Including Chrome OS - 5.88%.

[mild gust]

Updates in the middle of a space mission

[bronze axle]

Linux just hit ~3% on Steam recently. Highest ever by far.

[mild gust]

Linux wouldn't do that

[summer cedar]

Of course, what interests me is this OTHER category.

Apparently, 10.27% of desktops are running an UNKNOWN OS.

[worldly mantle]

isn't android based on linux lol

[bronze axle]

There are a few more distros that are optimized for gaming now, too.

[mild gust]

Chinas and koreas os

[summer cedar]

@pearl elk Did you ship Calamari OS with kangaroo code by any chance?

[summer cedar]

That's still Linux based, I believe.

[pearl elk]

agile wasnt agile enough so we make kangaroo

[hasty cargo]

pop os is supposed to be good for gaming

[summer cedar]

Well, that's why we don't know what that OTHER OS is, I guess.

It's hopping around too much.

[mild gust]

Not anymore

[bronze axle]

Bazzite is one to look at for gaming.

https://bazzite.gg

[mild gust]

HarmonyOS abandoned a lot of the Linux kernel if not all of it wiki says

Wrote their own

[summer cedar]

So, what does it have?

[worldly mantle]

globalist complaining about china innovating 😁

[summer cedar]

Harmoncode?

[mild gust]

Lol

Probably

How is it complaining?

Lol

Good for them

No one wants their OS

[bronze axle]

A lot more people are giving Linux a try now. It's going to be one hell of a year for computing.

[pearl elk]

but China still didnt make Titanfall 3... sooo

[summer cedar]

Unless you buy their phones.

I THINK Harmony is getting installed by default on their stuff now.

[worldly mantle]

sanction, tariffs and tech bans actually push domestic innovation and growth

[bronze axle]

Watching Pewdiepie's Linux video was pretty surreal. That exposed it to a lot of new people.

[summer cedar]

I think I'll dual-boot a Linux distro at some point in the future, but only after I buy a separate drive for it.

[bronze axle]

That's a good way to start.

[summer cedar]

That being said, I've no reason to learn it eagerly. 😄

[mild gust]

Why not

[summer cedar]

I am a happy Window-ser, for now.

[bronze axle]

I have years of experience running Ubuntu on the server, so at least I'm not going in blind. I have a good grasp of the fundamentals.

[summer cedar]

FOR NOW! 👻

[mild gust]

You can make your game work on Linux

[bronze axle]

I am only enjoying Windows right now because I have heavily modified it to be a reasonable OS that isn't filled with ads and BS.

[summer cedar]

Umm, Sir, I happily show you the Vulkan renderer I've left in the options for my project. 😛

[bronze axle]

I don't know how long this dream will last, though. Microsoft seems hellbent on making Windows 11 as unreasonable as possible.

[hasty cargo]

when your organization stops adopting windows because it's data collection components make it impossible to pass certification, you know it's time to start shopping around

[summer cedar]

Are you on Win Home or Win Pro?

[bronze axle]

Pro.

[mild gust]

Bring back Windows 7

[summer cedar]

After I installed Pro, the first thing I did (and I always do with new software) is go through ALL the menus disabling unwanted stuff.

[bronze axle]

Midnight Laundry runs pretty well on Steam Deck already thanks to the Vulkan renderer in Unreal.

[bronze axle]

There are so, so many things to disable these days.

Some are more difficult than others to find.

[summer cedar]

The only trouble I've had is the lingering problem Win 11 has with widgets.exe.

Other than that, Win 11 has been solid. 🙂

[mild gust]

Glad theres many github projects dedicated to slimming down windows

[summer cedar]

FOR NOW!!!! 👻

[mild gust]

Also theres Tiny Windows 11

That slims down the windows 11 install

[bronze axle]

Indeed. Chris Titus' utilities and videos have been great.

[mild gust]

I've tried a few solutions

Some better than others

[summer cedar]

🤣 The first thing you must always do after EVERY update now, is to go into CoPilot's app settings and see what new data sharing nonsensical option MS has added. 🤣

[mild gust]

One I used years ago caused updates to slowly break lol

[bronze axle]

Ah, Copilot.

[mild gust]

Now they log our keystrokes

[hasty cargo]

there is no way to stop windows 10 / 11 from running cloud connections and all that stuff, all those scripts do some little things but the core of it is baked into the kernal, can bypass windows firewall filters and has no way to be disabled

[summer cedar]

More than Win's own LTS version?

[mild gust]

Idk about that

But pretty small

[bronze axle]

Don't forget to disable web results in the start menu.

That one requires a registry tweak.

[worldly mantle]

US does the most industrial spying yet they complain about china 😂

[summer cedar]

I can't wait for AI NPUs to simply generate an OS for us each boot.

[bronze axle]

Of course, I don't use the start menu anymore these days. I've been using the beta for Raycast on Windows, and it is so much better.

[summer cedar]

First boot: Welcome to Tangy OS.

Second boot: Welcome to Squid OS.

[white oxide]

different

[hasty cargo]

china does the same where they can, the US just OWNS the tech market

[summer cedar]

Third boot: Welcome to Nuke OS.

[white oxide]

but technically

[bronze axle]

Fourth boot: Welcome to You're Absolutely Right! OS

[white oxide]

as many linux versions as fidgit spinner types

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/pretty-lights-music-swirl-swirling-milli-meme-a-million-tomorrows-gif-5016238083389593893

[summer cedar]

Fifth boot: CUDA compiler error. Please redo! OS.

[pearl elk]

I guess on the upside its easier for me to run local AI gen on AMD on Linux

[summer cedar]

Not really.

[bronze axle]

I'm still living in the past where I write all my own code. A dinosaur, I know.

[summer cedar]

As far as I have seen a lot of checkpoints and LORAs support NVidia.

AMD support is a bit of an after-thought.

[mild gust]

Someones gotta do it

[summer cedar]

It's there, but not so great.

[white oxide]

nvidia money rain in the exec office

[summer cedar]

While true, NVidia has had more than a bit of a headache in fulfilling their corpo quotas.

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/money-rich-gif-25596211

[pearl elk]

Nvidia could probably afford to give away consumer hardware with how much theyre gonna make from data centers

[summer cedar]

They had what - TEN MILLION orders for those blackwell corpo-GPUs?

[bronze axle]

Many millions of GPUs allocated for "AI" companies.

[pearl elk]

consumers can just have all the dud wafers

[summer cedar]

Thailand electronic dumps beckon you.

[hasty cargo]

idiocracy, but ow my balls is generated by ai

[bronze axle]

Open AI claimed 40% of the world's DRAM supply.

[hasty cargo]

it's even worse than I thought

[white oxide]

im just waiting for NVMe prices to drop again

[bronze axle]

Wait until Costco has their own AI. "Welcome to Costco! We love you."

[hasty cargo]

haha

[white oxide]

i got good GPU, and good ram

[summer cedar]

Now, if we could just image generate our food and water directly into ourselves, everything's kosher. 😄

[bronze axle]

lol

[mild gust]

AI that follows you around the store

[summer cedar]

You mean Optimus.

[mild gust]

Just a little drone style

[summer cedar]

Coming soon ™

[white oxide]

lol

[bronze axle]

My Unreal Source plan for 2026 is to double down on humans.

[hasty cargo]

scoop up all those ex enterprise pm981a'a because I don't think it be coming down

[mild gust]

The future of theft prevention

AI drones that shock thieves

[pearl elk]

but Im not a human

[summer cedar]

Your UE source plan should be to make tons of money, so you can be cozy during the BIG ECONOMIC STRIFE!

[bronze axle]

I will try to make my money with my games.

[summer cedar]

Yes, or by selling your RAM to buy a house.

[white oxide]

i dont mind waiting just wanna leave 500gb C drive

[bronze axle]

We make a tiny bit of donations for Unreal Source, but it barely even covers web hosting.

[summer cedar]

Either way, whatever works.

[mild gust]

Start an Unreal Source Youtube channel

[pearl elk]

jeeez web hosting must cost a mint these days

[bronze axle]

It's probably best this way, so it stays focused on being a community resource.

[summer cedar]

Kind of, yeah.

[hasty cargo]

Im still a slacker

[white oxide]

and my game drive is NOT c drive nice, given its just a removable usb drive with the case removed

[summer cedar]

All the web hosts invite you in with big discounts.

[bronze axle]

Old school. 🤘

[summer cedar]

Then, when the time period is over, the real cost hits you.

[hasty cargo]

https://tenor.com/view/robert-redford-jeremiah-johnson-nodding-yes-nod-of-approval-gif-21066931

[pearl elk]

its okay to use A and B drive letters guys

[summer cedar]

NO!

[mild gust]

Could have some side income eventually from the channel to!

[summer cedar]

That's for floppies only.

You will not take the reservation away from the Indians!

I mean, the floppies.

[mild gust]

Talk about events or releases on the fab free for the bi-week

Could be many things

[cursive crypt]

boomer drives

[white oxide]

lol

[summer cedar]

I remember playing that Batman adventure game for DOS.

[bronze axle]

A YouTube channel would require a lot of resources. I'm going to focus on improving our bots and seeing what I can do to improve the website.

[summer cedar]

3 mini-foppy disks.

[bronze axle]

I'm going to add automatic reminders for free Fab drops soon.

[worldly mantle]

this discord server usefulness has dropped considerable since chatgpt

[bronze axle]

You really think so? Are you speaking from personal experience?

[white oxide]

lol

[cursive crypt]

But we already got them in #unreal-news ?

[white oxide]

i like the social aspect of you sparklefarts.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/disquette-floppy-disk-gif-6328711

[white oxide]

the only reason im still here while im writing a novella every week

[summer cedar]

Not for me. I come here mingle with my select few homies from the community. AI services are different and the human interaction I get here is uniquely beneficial to me.

[bronze axle]

Yes, that's where I post them, but soon you will be able to sign up to get reminders right before the current batch expires.

[proud jay]

this man is one to post ai generated memes all day, idk if he was here for learning in the first place

[cursive crypt]

I dont think so in general. Definitely, some low effort things can be answered, but some channels can't be substituted...

[bronze axle]

And that's exactly what we are going to focus on this year. I want us to focus on what we can offer than "AI" cannot.

[summer cedar]

Not to mention, if I wasn't part of this server, I would NEVER find out when Blue Man EVENTUALLY gets a girlfriend.

[hasty cargo]

you can still see real A drives in use where I live

and fax machines

[bronze axle]

Human connection, celebrating each other's success, things like that.

[pearl elk]

I feel like Manny could provide us with Unreal Engine philosophy once a week

[summer cedar]

Well, one achievable goalpost would be a girlfriend for Blue Man.

I bet it'd be great for donations too.

[pearl elk]

Blue Woman?

[mild gust]

Project AVA could be a substitute

[summer cedar]

We think alike.

[bronze axle]

Damn dude. lol

[proud jay]

Deja already betrayed him once, he's not falling for the AI gf trap again

[bronze axle]

Ice cold.

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/avatar2-pandora-gif-27363250

[cursive crypt]

... quality trolling, refreshing rants... 👍

[pearl elk]

or would he require a complementary colour?

[summer cedar]

That's why he can find a gf in this community, where you get ham00n interaction.

[proud jay]

there's girls women here?

[summer cedar]

@broken sigil We are all conspiring against you. Don't scroll up. 😛

[white oxide]

i mean i kinda gave up on unreal stuff for a while, but hey yall are at least MILDLY entertaining so i stick around

[bronze axle]

Hope and optimism for those of us who would prefer not to be drowned in "AI" tools.

[summer cedar]

I notice a hawk(e) skulking around sometimes.

........ sometimes.

[proud jay]

I haven't used unreal since october 2020, get on my level

[white oxide]

also deiters house

[pearl elk]

game dev is hard enough let alone when you throw UE5.7 into the mix

[summer cedar]

Stay away from my bread in Dieter's house, Marshall!

AWAY! ✊

[white oxide]

deits i havent used unreal pretty much period

[bronze axle]

The Epic Dev Assistant is pretty bad, so I think we've got some time left.

First time I used it, it lied to me about a Blueprint API with a high degree of confidence.

[pearl elk]

the Dev Assistant fails so you can succeed

[white oxide]

lol im just curious about all the differences in build style between my house and deits

given its been almost a year since i moved in

[summer cedar]

But, the Quest for Blue Man's GF aside, being around a like-minded community is very good for a person. This server provides that, not to mention some of the mature folk here that make for good discussions.

[hasty cargo]

still use 4.15 and vs2015 for some hobby projects

it just werks

[white oxide]

hell its been a year since my concrete was poured

[worldly mantle]

i wrote entire movement replication in cpp using chatgpt and other modification including bug fixes on older ue4 builds, bring uwp support on newer engine versions so i could drop a game on xbox and many more

[summer cedar]

On the other hand, Gemini Pro is not bad at all.

It helped me make a stripped blank project today.

And I am only halfway through the document. 🙂

[pearl elk]

I cant get UE4 to work, every time I try it looks in the wrong directory for UBT

[hasty cargo]

uhh theres a thing for that

ummm

[pearl elk]

I think something got updated for UE5 and it borked it

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/eternal-purgatory-ep-welcome-to-ep-gif-2592485618272138283

[bronze axle]

Is it giving you good results?

[hasty cargo]

alternativeley just install vs2017 for everything up to 4.26 etc

[summer cedar]

I implemented each change (stripping plugins and making defaultengine ini edits) line by line and saved and tested. Every project file loaded properly.

[pearl elk]

yeah I might need to roll acouple of VMs for UE4 and UE5 lol

[summer cedar]

So far, so good. 🙂

[bronze axle]

Live your best life and you will meet her one day.

[summer cedar]

But then again, I always double-check before I do anything that my brain says looks suspicious.

[proud jay]

or him

[mild gust]

or them

[proud jay]

or it

[hasty cargo]

I have an entire environment on an nvme I just plug in for doing stuff on 4.15 so that avoids any cross contamination

probably best bet

[summer cedar]

I feel this solitary conjunction's use is unfair.

[proud jay]

Blue Man can't leave the house to find a gf, his watch is just so big and heavy, can barely move his arm

[summer cedar]

Why not AND him, her, and them, and it?

[bronze axle]

That's a good instinct to have. Don't let go of that. Coding is one of the few things "AI" can do with some degree of competency, but it still makes mistakes due to the nature of its training data.

[white oxide]

lol

[mild gust]

Reddit? lol

[proud jay]

AI makes mistakes the majority of the time for me

[pearl elk]

yeah unfortunately UE moves pretty quick so I find it failing with alot of the newer plugins

[proud jay]

but it's still helpful sometimes

[white oxide]

BM just do what im doing, writing enough to create a whole fanbase of people with modest women who are your type then see if you can get one of them....

takes work

[summer cedar]

I am 40 now. Worked on x86 PC when I was five and moved up to Intel Core 2 Duo with 128MB VRAM, if you remember those days.

You learned the hard way back then, to test everything, check everything. I think it gave our generation a kind of animal instinct.... silicon instinct that tells us when something's off.

[white oxide]

but you can likely do it from home

[proud jay]

takes enough ChatGPT tokens

[hasty cargo]

I have never had a piece of AI code work once, but it gives some ideas for potential strategies

[mild gust]

Not even once?

Not even python?

[hasty cargo]

today it did this: "maxrpm - maxrpm / speed" literally fed me a divide by 0

I told it and it said "whoops typo"

like whuuuu

[bronze axle]

Web development is probably the most reliable thing "AI" models can do thanks to being trained on so many repositories from GitHub, blog posts, courses, etc. However, it still makes mistakes even there because of how LLMS work. A keen eye will notice that a single response usually includes components of many similar-but-slightly-different scenarios, which means a small portion of the code/advice you get may be totally irrelevant to your particular use case, and maybe even dangerous for security.

[proud jay]

and everything except gemini is absolute garbage in my experience

[pearl elk]

I had alot of success using AI for JS, it seems very proficient at that language

[bronze axle]

All of that is to say: check your sources and verify before proceeding.

[mild gust]

Not so good at security vulnerabilities though

[summer cedar]

Speaking of, let me brag about how I got Gemini Pro free for 18 months with one of my mobile phone subscriptions. 😄

[bronze axle]

Yes, that is part of what I was getting at.

[proud jay]

proud of you

[summer cedar]

Thank ye.

[pearl elk]

in all honesty its a training set problem for AI use with UE C++

[mild gust]

You have to really remind it of some things

For it to even know what to do

[steel summit]

just let the ai think for you its fine

[summer cedar]

Aren't there some companies already using private AI models for detecting security issues and fixing them?

[hasty cargo]

I notice its hard to iterate with AI on code, because it constantly restructures what it's doing, and then if you ask it to do something with a predetermined output, say with some magic numbers, it will never complete

[mild gust]

Snyk

[broken sigil]

-# me living my best life and waking up at 8pm with no social life in sight lol
At 26 with 0 past relationship experience is giving me exactly 0 hope 😅

[mild gust]

https://snyk.io/

[bronze axle]

Indeed. That's due to the same issue. It's not idempotent, so it will never give you exactly the same results, even for solving the exact same problem.

[summer cedar]

Aren't you kind of well off though, having sold some popular plugin or something?

[mild gust]

There's another I tried also

[white oxide]

yeah fun, but beware the 'pro' model option, its decent with code, but holy fuck does it SUCK at writing or anything NOT code\

[mild gust]

But Snyk works best

[summer cedar]

You can just go hire a girlfriend. 😄

[worldly mantle]

what dev team updates unreal engine versions mid development unless it brings some ground breaking feature, most teams keep developing a project on the unreal engine version they started unless you are a solo dev but even then might bring more bugs break things you already spend a lot of time on making and its not worth it

[mild gust]

Snyk also hooks into your repository

[proud jay]

I still believe 🙏

[pearl elk]

it knows things like Lyra extremely well but because its exposure to many different games made with UE is so limited it just gets stuck in a train of thought which isnt very inventive

[broken sigil]

I work from home

[white oxide]

lot of it is specific terms you need to use

[summer cedar]

My writing is solely my own. 😄 So, no worries for me there. But yeah, I hear ya.

[proud jay]

does working from home mean you're not well off?

I might be poor then

[summer cedar]

So do I. What're you getting at? 😛

[white oxide]

like ill have something like a whole paragraph of () and * just to make sure it does what i want

[mild gust]

I want to work from home 😢

[summer cedar]

Only reason I asked is, I remember someone saying, when I first joined here, that Blue Man had sold some plugin and was rich.

[bronze axle]

If I ask Claude — on two separate occasions, with an identical prompt — to help me setup a secure VPS running Ubuntu 22.04, I will get different results each time.

[white oxide]

next to like 2 lines of actual prompt

[mild gust]

Now ask claude if the sky is blue

[white oxide]

I really like the speed of research with it

[summer cedar]

To be fair, you built a house and spent a lot of money from your savings..... so.....

[proud jay]

made 15 trillion off BM Vehicle Physics

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/i-have-no-social-life-michelle-trachtenberg-gif-14305104

[proud jay]

and his kickstarter to write the documentation for it

[summer cedar]

Money can rent you one.

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/old-boomer-history-84years-many-years-ago-gif-18534104

[summer cedar]

See Japanese hire-family-members business.

Hire a father, a mother, a brother, a girlfriend, whatever.

[hasty cargo]

have you considered... joining a medieval larping group?

[summer cedar]

Get a start, spread that moolah around!

[proud jay]

you can hire me as very distant relative that you speak to once a year

[bronze axle]

Have faith. As long as you try to live your best life, you will dramatically increase the chances. Why? Because the more you act like others, the way you think others expect you to, the lower your chances of meeting someone who is right for you.

[summer cedar]

Provided you agree to send bread by post once a week, sold.

[mild gust]

Those are pretty based

[worldly mantle]

when i started using ai it did not have the BS makes stuff up

[pearl elk]

You could buy a lambo, I heard that works

[hasty cargo]

they do have fun

[summer cedar]

Or a horse.

[mild gust]

Sell your soul for some nachos

[pearl elk]

you just buy the lambo, park it near the beach and when you come back there will be a GF waiting

[bronze axle]

We come from the same era, my friend. I definitely remember those days, when a 1 GHz CPU was bleeding edge.

[pearl elk]

least thats what tiktok told me

[white oxide]

my first laptop in 2014 was a pentium 2

with a floppy disk

[summer cedar]

I still fondly remember Quest for Glory, King's Quest, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and Dangerous Dave.

[hasty cargo]

athalon xp my beloved

[pearl elk]

I dont miss floppy disks, we had a drive failure and it ate so many disks 🙁

[broken sigil]

Sir, that's not a GF, that's a money milker

[worldly mantle]

windows 98 and pentium mmx lol

[pearl elk]

you didnt specify which subgenre of GF you wanted 😛

[bronze axle]

I remember buying my first PC with my first job. It was an eMachines. Remember them? lol

[mild gust]

goth

[bronze axle]

I had used PCs and Macs for years before, but this PC was mine.

[summer cedar]

Oh, yes.

[bronze axle]

The best choice.

[summer cedar]

There's an eMachines revival underway, apparently.

Someone decided to refurbish them.

[pearl elk]

Im so mad I aged out for egirls 😿

[bronze axle]

Hah, no joke? What timing. Imagine if they build Linux boxes.

[mild gust]

Did that stop Sir Leo?

[summer cedar]

Apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCQZj8nk-1k - from last month.

[white oxide]

nah i want my modest gf, nice clothes, and loyal

i know thats a near impossible ask

but guy can dream

[worldly mantle]

to many backdoors with newer hardware and software

[mild gust]

It's on purpose

[pearl elk]

I heard Emiru is single BM 😅

[bronze axle]

Hah. Looks like a fun DIY project.

[summer cedar]

The PC is in good condition, too.

[bronze axle]

No kidding.

[summer cedar]

I'd have expected some yellowing or something by now.

[mild gust]

Those Unitree robots all have a vulnerability also

They can be ran as a botnet

[hasty cargo]

I still have an old athalon and ATI machine inside an arcade machine running mame

the whole software and frontend is just frozen in time

pretty sure it would be impossible to rebuild it again

[mild gust]

Nothings impossible

[summer cedar]

Pakistan sent more drones again.

They are really asking for it.

Which begs the question, "Who's motivating them? China? and why?"

[hasty cargo]

go find them and steal the AI compute units out of them

[mild gust]

They should do this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJqMPFNP4to&t=616s

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/atom-real-steel-movie-robot-fight-gif-13618149

[hasty cargo]

it just uses a few botique hardware interfaces to get the ati to output to the arcade machine tube

[summer cedar]

I think DRDO said their hardware was garbage and even refused to salvage the Chinese missiles, in the recent conflict.

[hasty cargo]

and some funny key encoder I used to build the button deck, forget the name maybe keywiz or something

[summer cedar]

Chappie!

Good movie.

[pearl elk]

Real Steel...

[summer cedar]

By the time they learn how to use the robots, the robots will rebel and burn them to the ground.

[mild gust]

Good

[summer cedar]

Right. I thought I got the name wrong.

[mild gust]

Noob

[summer cedar]

The final fight with Hugh Jackman coaching the robot was awesome.

[worldly mantle]

idk why but old hardware lasted longer, my cousin office server which he uses for storage has been running for 21 years and only hardware change it has was an hdd since its used mostly for documents lol

[mild gust]

Because we live in a throw away society.

Anything modern isnt made to last

[summer cedar]

Chappie was also a decent movie, just a bit obscure in its story-telling.

[pearl elk]

robot boxing would be pretty epic, then we can see a giant Jake Paul get its head knocked clean off 😹

[broken sigil]

The reason at this point I feel like it's almost impossible is because of my lifestyle, I work from home with no social life in sight and wake up at 8pm
I kinda also don't have the willpower for "dating" and on top of that I'm still dealing with my mental health adventures (a whole set of anxieties) as a result of some events 4 years ago that are limiting me in things I wanna do... So I'm still kinda trying to fix my own demons

And at 26 with no relationship experience I don't even know where I would start lol
I put all my skill points during character creation into career and none into relationship skills 😅

[white oxide]

bm it gets better

[summer cedar]

You say that, but all the broken floppy drives and CD-ROM drives beg to differ.

[mild gust]

Have you tried tinder?

[white oxide]

FUCK THAT

stay the hell away from dating apps

[pearl elk]

is Twitch a dating app?

[summer cedar]

Marshall, Blue Man isn't you. Don't project. 😛

[mild gust]

Anythings a dating app if you try hard enough

[summer cedar]

He might find Green Woman on Tinder.

[mild gust]

UwU

[white oxide]

not porjecting its the truth

dating apps have become the place to find either sugar babies, single moms, or scams no others

[mild gust]

Did they crack or just stop working?

[white oxide]

literally their entire marketing is 'smash and dash'

[summer cedar]

I was young at the time, but the floppies were fine. The drives failed a lot.

[pearl elk]

hey a cougar isnt a bad idea lol

[summer cedar]

Same for CD-ROM drives too.

[mild gust]

Yeah

[pearl elk]

BM said he's looking for experience 😛

[mild gust]

The drives have a pin in it no

If it gets damaged its fucked

[broken sigil]

Nah there is 0 chance I would resort to a dating app, I'm not that desperate lol

[summer cedar]

On the other hand, the CPUs and whatever were built to last.

[summer cedar]

There are many Tinder-happy married people, though.

[mild gust]

That's what I'm saying

[summer cedar]

You just gotta set realistic expectations and take precautions.

[mild gust]

My cousin married a tinder lady

[summer cedar]

Hire Master Chief to be your chaperone.

[hasty cargo]

you don't need to find a girl, just gotta find a hobby that's partially off the screen and in person

[summer cedar]

When I say Tinder, I mean dating apps as a group. Not just that particular app.

[hasty cargo]

rest will work itself out

[pearl elk]

just find someone else that works from home and you can work from home together

[broken sigil]

I mean if you dig long enough through shi* you might find some undigested jewelry in there

[worldly mantle]

start running every morning, increase distance by each day do pushup and pullups maybe do abs exercises, then (||you would still be ugly but not fat and meet a girl 😂 ||)

[white oxide]

and how long ago were they on the app?

[hasty cargo]

a brisk 1 hour walk every day will do wonders for anxiety

[white oxide]

because covid destroyed online dating

[pearl elk]

its strange I was heaps fitter couple of years back and I got less attention from women than I do now

its definitely confidence

[summer cedar]

12 years, 4 years, 2 years, and 5 years respectively. Again, not just Tinder, but dating apps collectively.

Mind you, all the couples I know also had good income and careers.

So......

[mild gust]

Like Bumble

[white oxide]

or you can make a local space your weekly visit, like ive been getting some attention at a local diner cause i go in every tuesday and order the same stuff at roughly the same time, now im getting real interest from people who arent shallow

[mild gust]

Where she has to message you first

[white oxide]

lol

[mild gust]

So gl

Just write a fake profile

[hasty cargo]

kinda harder these days though, you go around to the usual gathering spots in town, and everyone will be sitting in their car / own space head down looking at the phone, like if you're not in the sns world you're not existing

[summer cedar]

Japan's rent-a-girlfriend.

[worldly mantle]

alternative

[summer cedar]

Best way to begin.

[broken sigil]

I have a hard time gaining weight, only in the last year and a half did I manage to gain like 10KG so I don't look like a complete stick anymore lol

[pearl elk]

thought you said massage... would you give a guy a foot massage? 😹

[mild gust]

Sure

[summer cedar]

I remember that VR kit.

[white oxide]

yeah and i scare the hoes

[summer cedar]

I see that it became a meme. 😄

[mild gust]

It's not gay if you keep your socks on

[white oxide]

6'4 and able to dead lift 180kg

im a bulk of grumpy

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/hugh-jackman-punch-reel-steal-shadow-boxing-ko-gif-11518160

[pearl elk]

oh I been there, now I wish I could go back lol... I weighed like just over 50kgs for ages then I hit 30 and boom, 80kgs had to reel it back fast because I was headed to 100

[mild gust]

I bet that's how Linus wished he felt

[summer cedar]

Make AI generate an avatar for you and let it go on your behalf instead.

[mild gust]

But with all that latency it was hardly even close

[summer cedar]

Don't show your true face until you're at the altar.

Easy-peasy.

[broken sigil]

Yeah I guess that's kinda the problem

I think the last new person I met and got to know was like 8 years ago

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/babylon5-g-kar-andreas-katsula-no-laugh-gif-17786318

[summer cedar]

How can you succeed then, with that attitude? 😛

[pearl elk]

awww dont we count BM

[summer cedar]

no.

[hasty cargo]

somethin you can atleast think about, ask ai for a list of potentially social hobbies within your parameters

[pearl elk]

but but... I can do a captcha

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/hacksmith-hacksmith-you-tube-hacksmith-gifs-engineer-wolverine-gif-9495920

[broken sigil]

Yep, been at 55 ish for a very long time, sitting at 60 something now feels a lot more healthy

[soft night]

hacksmith was there

[mild gust]

What can't this Canuck do

[summer cedar]

68KG here. Almost perfect.

[white oxide]

yall tiny

[hasty cargo]

you all lanky or under 6 ft

[soft night]

yeah now the smithblade

[white oxide]

im 117kg

[summer cedar]

Wokays! Off to sleep. 😴

[mild gust]

Did you see the pipboy

[worldly mantle]

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/the-man-who-married-a-hologram-in-japan-can-no-longer/426715

[white oxide]

and can dead lift a riding lawnpower with one hand but hey

[mild gust]

It's okay Razer has his back he can buy Project AVA

[broken sigil]

What I'm realizing is the hardest thing is changing your daily routine

[mild gust]

Start slowly

[white oxide]

absolutely

its hard

but thats why getting lunch/dinner is the best

[pearl elk]

reminds me of that show Upload

[worldly mantle]

take her to your basement

[white oxide]

why i go to the dinner tuesday nights.

not busy, no rush hour, so you can actually talk to the people

[broken sigil]

I can show her my PC collection, I'm sure she'll be impressed

[soft night]

https://hacksmith.store/en-eu/pages/find-your-perfect-smith-blade

[hasty cargo]

sucks though, if you were born 10 years earlier, this stage of your life would be a lot easier to escape, society changed a lot after the flu

[proud jay]

just let your dad talk to her for an hour

[white oxide]

the right woman might like it

your pc collection

my wife didnt really care about my PC's but she loved how much i loved them, and then sat across the office reading while id play

[hasty cargo]

look for a girl carrying a classic thinkpad

[proud jay]

you have a wife?

[worldly mantle]

wait for zombie apocalypse get a zombie girl 😂

[white oxide]

HAD

[proud jay]

that looks nsfw

[white oxide]

the death and stuff

thats like straight up porn

like wtf

[hasty cargo]

https://tenor.com/view/jesus-peeking-i-see-you-guilty-gif-25117299

[white oxide]

^^^this^^^

[bronze axle]

That's OK. Work on yourself first. Don't worry about dating. Focus on living your best life. Become the best version of yourself. The rest will fall into place.

[mild gust]

You don't want a zombie girl

Those are dime a dozen here

[white oxide]

this and, if you WANT a date, do something to allow them to come naturally, why i suggest making a routine that puts you at a nice place, usually food

[proud jay]

if you want a date just open your calendar

[mild gust]

Tell her that you are a busy person you can only talk once a year

Um

#rules

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/loop-rules-rule-loopemail-gif-18923022

[white oxide]

have a space where you can naturally meet people

[worldly mantle]

that too ?

[white oxide]

yeahh

if you wouldnt show it to an old lady in church, dont show it here

[mild gust]

Idk would you show that to a 13 year old?

[bronze axle]

Yeah that's a bit too NSFW for this server.

[white oxide]

and the second thing too

[proud jay]

you don't know what he would do with a 13yo

[white oxide]

in like 20 min

[mild gust]

True

[worldly mantle]

13 year old know more than i do when it comes to nsfw lol

[white oxide]

or has already done

thats not an excuse that sane adults use

thats a registry type of response buddy

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/take-a-seat-chris-hansen-gif-12085242

[hasty cargo]

it did leave me wondering: real or staged, because geeeeez

[worldly mantle]

i did mention i work nsfw ue game currently because it pays compared to regular games but still there is more krap being posted here kid should not see where do you draw the line

[white oxide]

uh nudity and sex toys?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/seat-leon-launch-gif-1562926685211634204

[white oxide]

also just cause it 'pays better' which studies show they really DONT, doesnt mean its not against the rules to share it in the LOUNGE

the cost/effort to return is usually better, but good games with effort, and a team that tries to promote will always do better

on a final cost ROI

because the problem is everyone uses AVERAGE for sales, not median

[mild gust]

I think the more sexual in nature things 🤷

Theres communities for that

[white oxide]

because inide games like among us and the 2,000 asset flip low effort projects (like mine), really skew the amount of money one makes

[soft night]

the trailer i saw 2 times in avatar showing https://youtu.be/fCoJtCD1fc8?si=nZm1WDlKFkP24Le0

[pearl elk]

will my dad finally return too

[white oxide]

like in book publishing, the AVERAGE copies sold for new authors are really low, the median is considerably better

[pearl elk]

Highguard is back people, are you ready

[mild gust]

No

[pearl elk]

I gotta watch the game awards again le sigh

[mild gust]

Why

[proud jay]

maybe he just likes it

[pearl elk]

there was some moba game I missed the title of, not sure if it was Smite 2 or not

[proud jay]

watches it every night before bed

[pearl elk]

Geoff is pretty hot ngl

[mild gust]

There was a few no?

[pearl elk]

yeah there were, it wasnt even a long trailer

[soft night]

mons you mean from soma creators

[pearl elk]

maybe it was in a different video I saw it

[worldly mantle]

@hasty cargo do you have any inside info cause i never get it right

[pearl elk]

yeah it must have been Smite 2, I just remember the trailer looking better for some reason

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/CxwrCRdqZb8?si=ihODUKLj_yFazD23

[mild gust]

Always looks greener

[queen isle]

https://bsky.app/profile/hryb.me/post/3mccuyabbv22d

Major nelson layoff unity

[celest musk]

any UE dev should play Ark Evolved and Ark Ascended

that game teaches all things that you should NOT do

it's impressive what you get away with as successful company in this industry

[pearl elk]

players start nude in all of my games

[celest musk]

my game is the other way around

[pearl elk]

I might even do a DB wipe once in awhile just to send them back to nude too just for kicks

I'll make players pay for save points

[celest musk]

they have/had some good devs at Wildcard tho

some things are really good

and all the bugs/issues ruin it

[pearl elk]

oh right almost got wildlight and wildcard mixed up there

[celest musk]

and for what it is, they got pretty good animations for the animals

[pearl elk]

they obviously mocapped real dinosaurs

just wonder which island they went to

[dusk plaza]

https://www.twitch.tv/serpentsymphony

[errant raven]

My heart feels like it's beating fast as fuck

But checking pulse shows a very normal bpm

[unborn lotus]

that's heart palpitations

[errant raven]

What's a sith lords alter ego name got to do with my heart rate

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[summer cedar]

@proud jay Apparently, the great Orange flipped off somebody in public. 😄

[mild gust]

Who was it

[summer cedar]

A protester called him a 'Pedo protector' in public and the Orange Fuhrer gave him a middle finger.

Not to mention shout obscenities at the guy.

[mild gust]

Nice

I am slowly becoming a Trump fan

[summer cedar]

Also, ironically, orange economy is an actual thing.

--- The Orange Economy denotes a creative revolution that India is well positioned to lead. This refers to the segment of the economy driven by content in which ideas, culture, and creativity are turned into goods and services with tangible economic value. The sector comprises music, film, fashion, digital content, gaming, design, arts, animation, media, advertising, as well as architecture, publishing, cultural tourism, and other creative industries. This creative economy stands on talent, culture, content, creativity and intellectual property. ---

I didn't know this.

[summer cedar]

I bet Netflix is already planning a few serials.

The Orange Nation, sequel to The Orange County.

[mild gust]

Orange Ranch

[summer cedar]

Orange Cola, Orange Chicken, and Orange Ranch - the trilogy.

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/ponste9-gif-20328581

https://tenor.com/view/ponste9-gif-20328877

[summer cedar]

What happened to Paris' friend, btw?

[mild gust]

Nicole Richie?

[summer cedar]

I know Paris became fairly successful, but her friend seems to have disappeared.

Yeah.

[mild gust]

IIRC she got hard into drugs

Yeah

She has been open about her struggles with cocaine, heroin, Vicodin, and marijuana, with her most recent arrest occurring in August 2007 for driving under the influence after admitting to using marijuana and Vicodin.

So basically she fell off after that

[summer cedar]

Damn.

[mild gust]

While Paris kept going

She became a business woman etc

[summer cedar]

Oh, Nicole became a mum.

Two kids.

[mild gust]

That also

[summer cedar]

She settled down in 2010.

I see. She opted for the slow life. Good for her.

[mild gust]

I saw her in a Cameo recently I think

[summer cedar]

She's a fashion designer, too. Guess she settled down. Looks happy and healthy.

Nice.

I am glad that crazy story had a nice ending.

The two of them were downright weird back in the day.

[mild gust]

I like Paris

Nicole was kinda weird

[hasty cargo]

the base of my little laptop refurb project arrived today, not even through the second layer of package and I started to smell the smoke..

[summer cedar]

Remember to claim the free assets on Fab.

[mild gust]

Done

[mild gust]

Mask up

Fingers crossed no roaches

[hasty cargo]

its full of dust and i have a replacement keyboard, but smoke smell gets in everything, the wiring, the solder mask, even the plastic itself

[mild gust]

Yup

It's gross

[hasty cargo]

only thing i had work is disassembly and leaving it outside in the sun for a month

[mild gust]

Could be worse

Could have diatomaceous earth go through your fans

[hasty cargo]

whaaaaat is that?

[mild gust]

Crushed sea fossils

It's used in pest control

Specifically things like bugs

[mild gust]

Silica

Apparently I was told it's slightly flammable

Since its a dust particle

[hasty cargo]

yeah atleast they weren't running the machine in an industrial chemical warehouse

[mild gust]

Well can appear as one

Neither was I 😂

Wasn't warned before it was applied

So had to rush to turn off pc

Was too late fans sucked in dust

[worldly mantle]

do what callisto protocol did have users pay for extra death animations 😂

[mild gust]

Pay for reloads

[hasty cargo]

well if you're not breathing the stuff every day probably wont do no harm

[mild gust]

Na ended up taking a q-tip and rubbing alchohol to the fans

and cleaned as much as possible off

It's advised to wear a mask when applying it though also

Because it can cause micro cuts in the lungs

[hasty cargo]

stuff like that is the reason I been thinking to get an air cleaner for the home

[summer cedar]

Lucifer, will you be....

MICROSHIFTING?!

[mild gust]

What

[summer cedar]

It's a new fad in work life.

--- “Microshifting,” a more radical spin on hybrid work that slices the day into short, non‑continuous blocks of labor ---

Basically, work when you want and do whatever you want whenever, so long as you get the work done.

Report at 9 a.m., work till 10, go for a walk, work till noon, go for lunch with your friend.....

[worldly mantle]

work is something you do when you'd rather be doing something else

[summer cedar]

Depends on which category you fall in - the ones that like their job and the ones who work just because they have to.

There's a lot of the former these days.

[worldly mantle]

if you like what you are doing you don't call it work 😂 that just means you would rather be doing something else

[summer cedar]

Work is work. Your liking or disliking it means nothing. At best, you'll be lucky to find something you love doing. If you do, good for you. It doesn't change its nature.

---

All of which is irrelevant to what I was asking @mild gust . 😄

Are you microshifting, Lord of the underworld, Beelzebub of the Pits?!

[mild gust]

Uh nope

Work full time right now 😂

[summer cedar]

Stuck in our old ways.

Unwilling to change.

[mild gust]

For now

[summer cedar]

🧓

[mild gust]

I microshift unreal stuff lol

[summer cedar]

Please tell me there's meat on the plate (haven't played the video yet).

Oh yeah, there is. (watched the video now).

Good, given the portion size.

[summer cedar]

Makes sense.

She was promoted to unemployed.

It's a glorious position of self-discovery and fulfilment.

I can't wait for Optimus to go into production.

Humanoid robot with humanoid hands, powered by Grok, with an AR-15 in its hands.

It'd be an age of peace.

🔫

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/india/heating-palak-paneer-how-indian-students-secured-200k-settlement-from-us-university-after-racist-dispute/ar-AA1UaCPq

@mild gust Imagine not liking cheese.

AND SPINACH!

The heathens.

[mild gust]

Unbelievable

[summer cedar]

They dare to disrespect their own God.

POPEYE!

[mild gust]

Free popeye

[summer cedar]

Worship the spinach!

---

Scott Adams is dead.

Long live Dilbert.

[mild gust]

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/world-first-solid-state-ev-battery-to-offer-600km-of-range-from-a-10-minute-charge

Company in Estonia apparently cracked the code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PjlwZVLVE

[summer cedar]

Toyota?

Oh, Estonian company.

COOL! 🙂

[mild gust]

Ecoflow?

Well then person in this video is misinformed 😛

[summer cedar]

So, not Toyota or Estoyota then.

It's by Finoyota!

[mild gust]

Donut labs

[summer cedar]

😱

Finland trying to take credit!

[hasty cargo]

what is a solid state battery

[summer cedar]

Plagiarism!

This means WARRR!

[hasty cargo]

a capacitor?

[summer cedar]

💣

[mild gust]

A solid-state battery is an advanced type of rechargeable battery that uses a solid electrolyte instead of the liquid or gel electrolytes found in conventional lithium-ion batteries.

[summer cedar]

Solid-state battery means no liquid chemical inside it.

There's a block of solid electrolyte.

[mild gust]

So no chance of it catching fire

[summer cedar]

Supposedly longer-lasting, easier/no maintenance, etc. etc.

[summer cedar]

Sir, please don't motivate 'scientists' to experiment. 😛

[mild gust]

It's puncture proof

So gl

🤷

[hasty cargo]

hmm interesting, it's been a long time since there was a new chemistry, I thought batteries were basically done to the limit

[mild gust]

Na Chemistry is ever changing

We discovered a new element a few years ago

[summer cedar]

Is it drill proof?

Is it bomb proof?

Is it robot supah arm proof?

Is it AI proof?

Is it side-ejection launcher proof?

[mild gust]

Time will tell

[hasty cargo]

oh so the chemistry hasn't changed it's still a lithium cell

[proud jay]

isn't it finnish?

[mild gust]

Could be where it's main hub is

But the guy in the video said the place that had the breakthrough was in Estonia so idk

[proud jay]

🤷

I'll be happy to see it once it reaches actual production

[mild gust]

They said it's available today

So 🤷

[proud jay]

in an actual car?

[mild gust]

Motorcycle

Drones

[summer cedar]

Can't believe we don't have a droneboard yet.

We should be skating in the skies.

[proud jay]

cool

I hope they figure out the tech in the coming 3 years

cause then I'm getting a new car

the power draw to charge 600km in 10 minutes must be crazy though

not doing that at home

[mild gust]

https://www.vergemotorcycles.com/gl_en/

[summer cedar]

We might just have robot horses by then.

Kawasaki is already designing those.

Check the Corleo.

[mild gust]

Kinda looks neat ngl

[hasty cargo]

wouldn't you need like some insane 3000 amp charger to do that? can't imagine they will be common

[proud jay]

I would buy it if I was rich and in need of a motorcycle

[summer cedar]

Neigh!

minus the bouncy rump.

[mild gust]

It can bounce on my rump

I mean wot

[summer cedar]

horses and camels generally have a bit of a bounce to them. hurts your buttocks.

Corleo did away with that.

No bounce. 😄

[proud jay]

probably not, but at least ss batteries should have longer range possibilities

[hasty cargo]

if they can stuff more capacity in the same form factor it will be cool, put em in laptops too

[proud jay]

they're also less flamable I think

200kW is not that much

I have a 350kW charger in the street

[summer cedar]

Is the street properly charged?

[proud jay]

I'm gonna charge it some more money for being next to my house

[summer cedar]

Good on you. A modern entrepreneur for an AI age.

[hasty cargo]

closer to 1000kw

for those speeds of charging

[proud jay]

you can for sure charge it

I just don't know if it's the super fast charging

my car can charge at 350kW, but I can also charge it in a standard wall outlet

[proud jay]

@summer cedar https://www.reddit.com/r/complaints/s/Sl8X7KxBWJ

[summer cedar]

Him flipping and cussing at people in public was the new low, I think. He's been mocking people for ages.

The Great Orange Fuhrer.

[unborn lotus]

none of his fans think he humiliated himself, it's the opposite. it's such a dumb title

[summer cedar]

Of course. The uneducated poor, his favourites.

[proud jay]

yeah you said this, but haven't seen it anywhere yet

[summer cedar]

w00t? Really? Give me a moment. It's public news.

[summer cedar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKmKDxHuZdY

On short notice.

It's also on MS Now, Fox News, etc. etc.

[proud jay]

oh

I saw they fired that guy

ford bending over

[proud jay]

he's such a mature man

[summer cedar]

Quite.

[proud jay]

really obviously becoming a dictatorship

free speech not allowed

conservatives will be like "It's a private company, they can do what they want" 🙃

[summer cedar]

Well, they can already shoot you and call it self-defence, yada yada.

Glorious freedom! ✊

[proud jay]

it's actually crazy how they just say things that are provably false on video

and their followers just eat it up

[summer cedar]

Because they are on a higher level of intelligence we can't understand, remember?

[proud jay]

they're on a different plane of existence

[summer cedar]

👀 Found a new AI model generation front-end I didn't know about. Lykos Stability Matrix.

Of course, the DL speed is arse. 130KB/s

[worldly mantle]

did see the fu at the ford factory ? 😁

[proud jay]

yes

[summer cedar]

Interesting. Stability Matrix in portable mode lets you move the model UI and checkpoint files anywhere you want on your hard disk.

Convenient, given the bloody model files are GBs large.

[worldly mantle]

they are already diving greenland and cuba for any resources among friends of course, wished i had insight on iran given refueling jets are on the move https://polymarket.com/event/us-strikes-iran-by

[summer cedar]

Installation log stopped providing details after 'Tkinter install complete'.

Ah, restarted again. Githubbing now.

[summer cedar]

*Off for evening walk 🚶‍♂️ *

[proud jay]

is 5pm evening?

Full on dementia arc https://www.reddit.com/r/UnderReportedNews/s/UVl6DjFNtk

[summer cedar]

When I left the house, yes. It was 5:10. 5:50 p.m. now. I had a nice walk.

[summer cedar]

I bet by the time the ballroom is finished, it'll be the Trump Mahal instead, his mausoleum.

Lul. Nvme 5000MB/s, my arse.

When you have 172,000 tiny files to move, it's still 10MB/s. 😄

[proud jay]

Bro what

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list

[summer cedar]

Papers please.

Everything's normal.

Go about your work.

[proud jay]

he was really inspired by adolf it seems

our great leader learned from history

[summer cedar]

Didn't he say he has Mein Kampf on his bedside table or something?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/navi-pandora-avatar-gif-27509065

[proud jay]

I think Stephen Miller might have mentioned something

idk if Trump did too

hahahahaha https://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Donald-Trump-Hitlers-original-ebook/dp/B01M300075

[summer cedar]

Well, it's confirmed Trump never reads.

He originally said he had the copy of Mein Kampf, BUT....

[proud jay]

the fact that this was published in 2016 is nice

[summer cedar]

...his former wife and friend who gave him the book said it was a collection of Hitler's speeches.

Not the Mein Kampf.

[proud jay]

that's from the minecraft server guys right?

[cursive crypt]

The mods for skyrim get really nuts

[summer cedar]

So far, I like this Stability Matrix thingy.

Installing multiple GUIs and downloading models is a breeze.

The only thing left to evaluate is its generation stability, but everything seems to load pretty smoothly.

I am going to try this 17GB Flux model out. God, I hope it doesn't make my PC explode! 💣

[proud jay]

I they Hypixel is a popular minecraft server and they decided to make their own game

which is just minecraft again

[soft night]

ponkkis voxel game would be more polished and better than this hytale?

https://tenor.com/view/hytale-absolute-hytale-absolute-simon-hypixel-gif-4863594162505390514

[pearl elk]

is the game called ponkkels?

[worldly mantle]

when skynet comes online it will be hell to pay 😁

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/skinet-skinet-remember-maquinas-revolucion-gif-7115195292076587720

https://tenor.com/view/we-are-borg-star-trek-picard-you-are-pertaining-to-us-we-are-the-cyborgs-we-call-ourselves-borg-gif-16620028895503350549

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/tv-family-guy-pepperidge-farm-remember-gif-7555951312549958006

Oy Oy

[summer cedar]

Watching the latest episode of Fallout.

[mild gust]

Oh nice

I'll check that out soon here

[mild gust]

Did you see the fun Omar inciting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBV7Hf9oYc0

[summer cedar]

Not yet, but given what is happening there, I am not surprised.

Now check this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kGO6F_wHlc

@proud jay ^ Watch this vid.

Get some popcorn and make sure you store your sanity in a safe.

@white oxide Remember we spoke about ICE standards a few days ago? Watch the vid. ^

[mild gust]

Imagine having standards smh

[summer cedar]

Hey, Lucifer! I have good news for you.

[mild gust]

I can join ICE?

[summer cedar]

I checked the ICE Database for recruits. Username and password were just 'deport'. Your name is on the list.

Yep.

You joined on 01/01/2026.

[mild gust]

Yay

[summer cedar]

They say your background check was completed in 2030.

You are hereby deputised to deport 'unknown creatures of questionable standing'.

Proceed. 😛

[mild gust]

I'm part of the state of Canada

Annexed territory

[summer cedar]

Yes, the jurisdictional data reads, "Empowered to serve in the 51st state."